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COVID-19: A Risk Assessment Perspective

Author(s) -

Imke Schröder

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

acs chemical health and safety

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249

H-Index - 21

eISSN - 1878-0504

pISSN - 1871-5532

DOI - 10.1021/acs.chas.0c00035

Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , outbreak , case fatality rate , coronavirus , public health , risk assessment , china , perspective (graphical) , virology , betacoronavirus , disease , environmental health , geography , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , computer science , pathology , population , computer security , archaeology , artificial intelligence

COVID-19 is a newly emerging viral respiratory disease first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which is related to the viruses that cause SARS and MERS. While the case fatality ratio for COVID-19 (5%) is far lower than that for SARS (11%) and MERS (34%), COVID-19 is spreading relatively uncontrolled at this time across the globe. In contrast, SARS appears to be contained, and MERS is controlled. This paper will explore why COVID-19 is able to progress to a global pandemic that affects our daily lives to an extent not known in recent history. The COVID-19 outbreak and spread will be examined based on the current literature, using a researcher's perspective of risk assessment and risk mitigation; this approach will be related to public health.

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